Issuing OCSP Signing Certificate with NSS

Overview

This page describes the process to sign the OCSP signing CSR and issue the certificate using NSS.

This page assumes an NSS database has been created as follows:

$ echo Secret.123 > password.txt
$ openssl rand -out noise.bin 2048
$ mkdir nssdb
$ certutil -N -d nssdb -f password.txt

It also assumes a CA signing certificate is present in the NSS database.

Issuing OCSP Signing Certificate

Sign the CSR with the CA signing certificate with the following commands:

$ CA_SKID=...
$ OCSP=...
$ echo -e "y\n\ny\ny\n${CA_SKID}\n\n\n\n2\n7\n${OCSP}\n\n\n\n" | \
   certutil -C \
   -d nssdb \
   -f password.txt \
   -m $RANDOM \
   -a \
   -i ocsp_signing.csr \
   -o ocsp_signing.crt \
   -c "ca_signing" \
   -3 \
   --extAIA \
   --extKeyUsage ocspResponder \
   --extGeneric 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1.5:not-critical:/dev/null

It will generate the OCSP signing certificate in ocsp_signing.crt.

See Also

• Generating System Certificates

• Generating OCSP Signing CSR with NSS

• Issuing CA Signing Certificate with NSS